Bach works directory

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Johann Sebastian Bach 1746, with riddle canon (oil painting by Elias Gottlob Haußmann )

The Bach Works Directory ( BWV ) is the best known directory of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach . It is arranged thematically and was presented in its first version in 1950 by the musicologist Wolfgang Schmieder . For the sacred cantatas, Schmieder followed the sequence of the Bach edition, the numbering of which had already become established; further groups of vocal works followed, followed by compositions for organ and harpsichord as well as chamber and orchestral music. The individual groups of works initially begin with cycles (if they exist) or other more representative groups and are then followed by individually traditional works.

Since then, the directory has undergone some additions and corrections, but its basic structure has not changed. Since more of Bach's works have since been found, while others have been proven to be inauthentic, the numbering is partly incomplete and after the number 1080 has been added works that are outside the appropriate number ranges. There is also a multi-part directory appendix with dubious works.

A new edition is planned for 2020.

Another directory of Bach's works is the Bach Compendium .

Vocal works - BWV 1–524

Cantatas, BWV 1–224

  • BWV 1–200 - Sacred Cantatas
  • BWV 201–224 - Secular Cantatas

Motets, BWV 225-231

  • BWV 225 - Sing to the Lord a new song, for two four-part mixed choirs
  • BWV 226 - The spirit helps our weakness
  • BWV 227 - Jesus, my joy
  • BWV 228 - Do not be afraid, I am with you
  • BWV 229 - Come, Jesus, come
  • BWV 230 - Praise the Lord, all Gentiles
  • BWV 231 - Be praised and praised with honor (first movement by Telemann)

Masses, BWV 232–236

Individual measurement sets, BWV 237–242

  • BWV 237 - Sanctus in C major
  • BWV 238 - Sanctus in D major
  • BWV 239 - Sanctus in D minor
  • BWV 240 - Kyrie eleison, Christe du Lamm Gottes
  • BWV 241 - Sanctus in D major
  • BWV 242 - Christe eleison in G minor

Magnificat, Passions, Oratorios, BWV 243–249

Four-part choral movements, BWV 250–438

  • BWV 250–252 Three chorales for weddings
  • BWV 253–438 - 371 Four-part chorale movements (four-part collection, edited by Kirnberger and C. Ph. E. Bach)

Songs and Arias, BWV 439-524

Organ Works - BWV 525–771

Works not linked to chorales, BWV 525-598

Choral movements, BWV 599–771

  • BWV 599–644 - Little Organ Book
  • BWV 645–650 - Schübler chorales
  • BWV 651–668 - Leipzig chorales ( "Eighteen chorales of various kinds" )
  • BWV 669–689 - Choral arrangements from the third part of the keyboard exercise
  • BWV 690–713a - Kirnberger chorales
  • BWV 714–740 - Choral arrangements
  • BWV 741–765 - Choral Preludes
  • BWV 766–768 - Partitas
  • BWV 769 - Canonical changes on " Vom Himmel hoch "
  • BWV 770 - Partite divere sopra “ Oh what should I do as a sinner? "
  • BWV 771 - Variations on " God alone in the height 'be honor' "

Harpsichord works - BWV 772–994

Works for two and three parts, BWV 772–805

Suites, BWV 806–845

Preludes and Fugues, BWV 846–962

Sonatas, Concerts, Variations, BWV 963–994

Chamber music - BWV 995-1040

Works for lute, BWV 995–1000, 1006a

  • BWV 995 - Suite in G minor
  • BWV 996 - Suite in E minor
  • BWV 997 - Suite in C minor
  • BWV 998 - Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E flat major
  • BWV 999 - Prelude in C minor
  • BWV 1000 - Fugue in G minor
  • BWV 1006a - Suite in E major

Works for a solo instrument, BWV 1001–1013

Sonatas with harpsichord or continuo, BWV 1014-1040

Orchestral works - BWV 1041-1071

Concerts, BWV 1041-1065

Suites, BWV 1066-1071

Counterpoint works - BWV 1072-1080

Other works

Compositions classified later, BWV 1081–1128

The directory numbers after 1080 were only inserted after the original creation of the Bach works directory (1950) and later contain works by JS Bach.

  • BWV 1081-1089 - Additions (BWV 1083 " Tilge, Höchst, Meine Sünden " after Pergolesis Stabat mater , BWV 1087 - Various canons )
  • BWV 1090–1120 - Organ choirs from the Neumeister Collection
  • BWV 1121–1126 - Further additions
  • BWV 1127 - Everything with God and nothing without him, aria for soprano
  • BWV 1128 - Where the Lord God does not stop with us, chorale fantasy for organ

Appendix I - Fragments and Lost Works, BWV Anh. 1–23

  • BWV Anh. 1–19 - Various cantatas
  • BWV Anh. 20 - Latin Ode
  • BWV Anh. 21 - Magnificat (from Telemann)
  • BWV Anh. 22 - Oboe Concerto (only subject retained)
  • BWV Anh. 23 - Concerto in E minor (only continuo part received)

Appendix II - Dubious Works, BWV Anh. 24–155

  • BWV Anh. 24–41 - Vocal works
  • BWV Anh. 42–79 - Organ Works
  • BWV Anh. 80–152 - Harpsichord works
  • BWV Anh. 153–155 - Chamber music

Appendix III - Incorrectly attributed works, BWV Anh. 156-189

  • BWV Anh. 156–170 - Vocal works (including BWV Anh. 159: Motet I won't let you, you may bless me after all)
  • BWV Anh. 171–183 - Works for keyboard instruments
  • BWV Anh. 184-189 - Chamber music

Later additions to the appendix, BWV appendix 190–213

  • BWV Anh. 190–200 - Lost Works and Fragments
  • BWV Anh. 201–207 - Doubtful works
  • BWV Anh. 208 - Incorrectly attributed works
  • BWV Anh. 209-213 - BWV 1998
  • BWV deest
  • BWV deest BC
  • BWV deest Emans
  • BWV deest Kast Bach Inc.
  • BWV deest series

The term “deest” ( Latin for “missing”) refers to works that are not listed in the list of works, but that can be identified elsewhere. If necessary, the source of identification is indicated afterwards.

literature

  • Alfred Dörffel: Thematic directory of the instrumental works of Johann Sebastian Bach . CF Peters, Leipzig 1882 [forerunner of BWV] archive.org
  • Wolfgang Schmieder : Bach Works Directory (BWV). Thematic-systematic directory of the musical works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
    1. Edition, Wiesbaden 1950, Breitkopf & Härtel; XXII, 747 pp.
    2. Edition, revised and expanded, Wiesbaden 1990, Breitkopf & Härtel; XLVI, 1014 pp. ISBN 3-7651-0255-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The painting hung in the Thomas School for many decades. In the second half of the 19th century it was “freshened up” and repainted several times, with part of the original expression being lost or blurred. In 1913 the original came to the Leipzig City History Museum , where attempts were made to remove the overpainting as best as possible. A copy of the picture from 1746 made by Haußmann himself in 1748 was initially in the possession of CPE Bach, was then considered lost for a long time and was acquired in 1952 by William H. Scheide (Princeton, New Jersey), who bought the picture after his death in 2014 bequeathed to the Leipzig Bach Archive in his will .
    The two Haußmann pictures are the only pictures in which Bach's identity is clearly established; in all other portraits that are ascribed to Bach, the assignment is uncertain. See The Face Of Bach ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Bach's identity is secured in the Haußmann paintings because he is holding his own composition in his hand, the canon triplex a 6 voci (six-part triple canon, BWV 1087), an artful canonical variation on the theme of the arias Goldberg Variations. See youtube.com ( Memento from July 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Leipzig Bach Archive
  3. ↑ Die Musikforschung , vol. 21/1968, p. 44